Re: [9fans] samuel

["ozan s. yigit" <oz@cs.yorku.ca>]

Andrew Simmons:

> ... I'd just like some way to find function definitions without
> changing the way I lay them out. grep ^nurdge *.c does have the appeal of
> simplicity, but I don't like adjusting my style to suit the machine.

it is not hard to write an ad-hoc scanner/parser to look for right
sorts of things and capture what you want. i once wrote a tool that
finds anything that looks like a function call in c-like programs.
it knows how to skip comments, and how to collect the arguments
(string or otherwise in multiple lines) after an identifier and an
opening paren, with proper number of closing parens:

csee -e 'draw$' frdelete.c
	..
draw(f->b, Rect(pt0.x, pt0.y, pt0.x+(f->r.max.x-pt1.x), q0), f->b,
nil, pt1)
draw(f->b, Rect(f->r.min.x, q0, f->r.max.x, q0+(q2-q1)), f->b, nil,
Pt(f->r.min.x, q1))

whereas unaided grep 'draw' will only get you

draw(f->b, Rect(pt0.x, pt0.y, pt0.x+(f->r.max.x-pt1.x), q0),
draw(f->b, Rect(f->r.min.x, q0, f->r.max.x, q0+(q2-q1)),

this was handy in finding functions regardless of how they were laid
out
instead of just bits and pieces.

oz
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